Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA), which requires a set of criteria for diagnosis, occurs in atopic individuals, predominantly asthmatics. Oral corticosteroids are the cornerstone for the management of the disease. Allergic Aspergillus sinusitis (AAS), clinico-pathologically similar to ABPA, is also diagnosed with a set of criteria including demonstration of fungal elements in sinu...

Allergic Aspergillus sinusitis (AAS) is a three decade old clinicopathologic entity in which mucoid impaction akin to that of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in the paranasal sinuses. Features such as radiographic evidence of pansinusitis, passage of nasal plugs and recurrent nasal polyposis in patients with an atopic background is suggestive of AAS. Histopathlogic confirm...

T he mould Aspergillus, a genus of spore forming fungi, affects the respiratory system in more ways than one. The clinical spectrum of Aspergillus involvement of the lungs ranges from various hypersensitivity manifestations to invasive disease which can be fatal. The inhaled spores hardly affect healthy persons but in asthmatic subjects these spores are trapped in the viscid secretions found in...